“THE GRIZZLY BEAR IS LIKE OUR BROTHER,” IDENTITY IN INTERTRIBAL DISCOURSE

Guillermo Bartelt

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Identity work through traditional metaphorizing in the discourse genre of sermonizing in the context of Amerindian intertribal gatherings is interpreted as to strategies of inclusiveness and reaffirmation of social structures.

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Amerindian, powwow, rhetoric, identity work, sermonizing, metaphorizing

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejlll.v4i4.244

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